page_title: Egils Levits
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Egils Levits / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: 2015.gada 3.jūnijs. Valsts prezidenta vēlēšanas. Foto: Reinis Inkēns, Saeimas Kanceleja Izmantošanas noteikumi: saeima.lv/lv/autortiesibas
context_page_description: Egils Levits is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist and jurist who is the President of Latvia since 8 July 2019. He was a Member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019.
  During the late Soviet-era he was a member of the Popular Front of Latvia and contributed to the declaration of renewed Latvian independence in 1990. He was Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Justice of Latvia from 1993 to 1994 and ambassador to Hungary, Austria and Switzerland from 1994 to 1995. He was then appointed a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, a position he held until 2004. He finished second in the indirect election for President of Latvia in 2015 behind Raimonds Vējonis. Although an Independent, he was the candidate of the National Alliance. In 2018, Levits was reappointed a Judge of the European Court of Justice, having first been appointed in 2004. He is married and has two children, a son, Linards, and daughter, Indra. He published a book of memoirs in 2019.
context_section_description: Levits is married to Andra Levite, a gynecologist, and has a son named Linards and a daughter named Indra. In 2019, Levits released his first book Valstsgriba. Idejas un domas Latvijai 1985–2018 (Country's Will: Ideas and thoughts for Latvia 1985–2018) where he mentions articles, interviews and combines them with his personal opinion as a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Aside from his native Latvian language, he also knows German (from his time in Germany), English, French and Russian.
caption: Egils Levits with his wife Andra (left) and daughter Indra (right)
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